International Studies
Article Databases (Scholarship)
International Studies at Macalester includes deep connections with departments across the curriculum. When doing research, you should check for appropriate subject databases from other disciplines. One clue would be to check the disciplinary databases in any departments cross-listed with your International Studies course. Below is a list of the most commonly used databases for International Studies research.
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America: History and Life
Index of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from before European contact to the present.
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Business Source Premier
Provides articles, industry reports, and more on subject areas related to business, with top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Use the Business Searching Interface to easily browse leading publications and locate company and industry profiles, country reports, and SWOT analyses.
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs OnlineDocuments and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.
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EconLitCovers a wide range of economic literature including economic theory and application. Includes journals, books, dissertations, collective volumes, and working papers in the field of economics.
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Google Scholar
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
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Web of Science
Note: The library has begun a subscription to Scopus as a replacement for our Web of Science subscription. Access to Web of Science will end on December 31, 2025.
Indexes information covering disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Includes six citation databases: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
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Academic Search PremierInterdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
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BASE
A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Communication and Mass Media CompleteAccess to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.
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Google Scholar
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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JSTOR
Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
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Project MUSEAccess to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Large collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. Includes full text for most graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
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Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
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Web of Science
Note: The library has begun a subscription to Scopus as a replacement for our Web of Science subscription. Access to Web of Science will end on December 31, 2025.
Indexes information covering disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Includes six citation databases: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus.
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Social Science Open Access RepositoryDatabase of open access journal articles and working papers in the social sciences. Useful for finding scholarship written and published outside of the U.S. Use the Disciplines feature to limit your search to a specific subject area.
Newspapers, Legal, and Thinks Tanks/Policy Resources
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Access World News: Research Collection
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Current coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals published by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Also includes more selected historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals going back to 1959. Roughly 25% of the content is in Spanish.
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Newspaper SourceFull-text coverage of hundreds of national, regional, and international newspapers, as well as newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.
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PressReader Newspapers
Access to thousands of newspapers from over 100 countries and 60 languages. Includes 90 days of back issues and translation in 16 languages. Create a PressReader account in order to save articles, create collections, and read content offline. Must be on campus or connected to the VPN to create an account.
Find additional and historical newspaper resources here
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HeinOnline
Provides coverage of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank SearchA Think Tank search engine that searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
Selected Think Tanks:
Liberal:
Center for American Progress (CAP)
American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
American think tank that analyzes the impact of federal and state government budget policies from a progressive perspective.
Human Rights Watch
A nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe
Conservative:
The Heritage Foundation
American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. It advances the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom.
American Enterprise Institute
A conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Its research is dedicated to issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare.
CATO Institute
American libertarian think tank, it was established to have a focus on public advocacy, media exposure and societal influence.
Centrist/Non-Partisan:
Brookings Institution
American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
The center conducts policy studies and strategic analyses of political, economic and security issues throughout the world, with a specific focus on issues concerning international relations, trade, technology, finance, energy and geo-strategy.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
For a more comprehensive list of Think Tanks, see Public Policy Research Think Tanks from Penn Libraries.
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CQ ResearcherAccess to original reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
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Pew Research CenterA nonpartisan American think tank that provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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GallupGallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company. It became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
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Polling the Nations
Compilation of surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and more than 100 other countries. All surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.